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what the hell are you talking about?! the Wakefield Doctrine has 3 personality types and one is not better than the others!

September 4, 2013 By clarkscottroger

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

Here’s the thing about the Wakefield Doctrine:

it’s not for everybody! easy assessment test notwithstanding, you have to engage your mind in order to use the Doctrine to ‘know more about the other person than they know about themselves’…worse! you have to use your imagination!!
the Wakefield Doctrine is a tool… it is not ‘an answer’ you want to know if your boyfriend is cheating on you? the Wakefield Doctrine sez: “..go frickin ask him!” (now before you hit ‘delete’… the rest of what we would say is, “then come back here and we’ll show you how to know if you should believe him or not’!)
we are all born with the potential to live our lives as clarks, scotts or rogers; no one knows (yet) why one person will end up in the personal reality of the Outsider (clarks) or the exciting world of the Predator (scotts) or grow up belonging to the Herd (rogers) we just do… early….say age 3 or 4 (not later)…in most cases, and that becomes our reality
we all have one predominant worldview but we retain, to one degree or another, the capability…the capacity to see the world as do the other two… we call these our secondary aspect and tertiary aspects
these secondary aspects? no, that does not mean you are a ‘combo-clark’ or a ‘hyper-scott/roger’ (well the hyper scott…lol goes without saying) and you are not some kind of roger-with-a-gift-for-disguising-yourself-as-the-other-two, sorry…don’t work that way. one predominant worldview, potential of the other two (will explain later why that’s important)
you want to know why it’s important to remember you have only one predominant worldview? one word ‘personal reality’ the Doctrine is about the reality you are experiencing…right now while you read this. We don’t care about the list of likes and dislikes, turn ons and turn offs… things that make you hot and why you think that some people are awful… we don’t care.
the Wakefield Doctrine is about one thing: by observing behavior, correctly inferring the reality that (the person) is experiencing… you know that old saying, ‘walk in the other person’s moccasin’ thing? this is that..on steroids …. that’s why we say that this is simple but not easy
on the plus side! if you understand the worldview of the other person (or yourself) you will know more about them than they know about themselves …how cool is that?
…very cool
well, for starters, scott: you will understand your prey way, way better… you will find yourself bored (fate worse than death for your people) far less often; rogers? you know how yours is the right way to do things and it’s just a matter of explaining it to people? the Doctrine can be of assistance, plus you will learn much about the history of the other person and clarks? lol yeah, I know…. how could this not be good?

That’s it for today, yo.

I will provide the link to the Pre-dominant Worldview Assessment Test on one condition: before you go clicking over there I need you to take the url/link to this page and paste it on one other page: clarks? anywhere you think that, once you have pasted it, you should click the hell out of there; scotts? ‘the Facebook’ rogers? I know you have blog friends who are like in the 400 to 700 visits-per-day class… paste it there

Done? alright click here

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第十二批的十件实事的感激，韦克菲尔德主义（只有DownSpring米歇尔可以告诉我们，如果我的赌博得到了回报！）

August 24, 2013 By clarkscottroger

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

…yes, I know! It would be so much simpler on all of us if I just wrote the numbers 1 through 10 in a vertical column and then, to the right of each numeral I wrote one thing, event, person, feeling, situation that I felt grateful for this weekend. But nooo I’m a clark and I feel the totally contradictory simultaneous need to be a part of the group but at the same time be certain that no one thinks that I am just part of the group! Ah, well…it is the nature of the worldview of the Outsider… the clarklike worldview.

i. grateful that Neil Peart¹ bears an un-canny resemblance to Gordon Bennett²; ii. grateful to Lizzi for making a reference to Mr. Bennett in the first place, iii. by way of a reply email to the TToT group (which I am also…in awe of)

IV. grateful that I find I can live with this (what you are reading) approach to a Post that (I believe) both meets the requirements of participation and is (somewhat) amusing to me to (try) to write, V. and somehow, even as I lurch out into the creative chaos of a clark trying to fit-in/be-different, I am still feeling good about, I am grateful and therefore, VI. I am grateful for the other members of this here group here for taking a fairly… open-minded view of what a Ten Things of Thankful list should look like

7. grateful for the members of this bloghop who, each weekend offer insights into realities other than my own, which allows me a new, different and (potentially) beneficial perspective on my own life these people being (subject to being incorrect or somewhat out of date):

eight. Considerer…Christine…Joy…Kristi…Louise…Kristi…Dyanne, and nine. all the people who write and participate and add to the growing reality-stability of the TTOT-ville the little metaphorical village that is created in the mind of some Readers each Saturday and Sunday…when we (also) have a Video Brunch when I get to meet and talk to in real time the people I know from this virtual place …I am grateful for that as well. 10!

Alright, that concludes my effort to be normal* in my attempts to write (and/or develop some skill at this late-in-life interest).

Welcome back, Considerer… thank you for the actual (not computer image), physical (not imagining what it would feel like) Vacation Post Card from the loverly Isle of Wight! I just got it last night. Phyllis, who always gets the mail because she always loves getting mail…even even bills! (she is a roger with a secondary clarklike aspect, but you knew that!) came into the house saying, ‘you have mail…it’s a postcard from some one in england?’ I do enjoy the Wakefield Doctrine, in part because of the people I have come to know and become friends with… very cool.

I extend the invitation to all to join us for a Video Brunch tomorrow morning… at a time to be determined (most likely 9 to 9:30 Eastern Daylight Time.) we hookup through google hangout (if you are not certain what that means ask me or Considerer or Cyndi or Michelle or Denise or Melanie it’s fun… not as scary as a clark might think and definitely (potentially) as much a hoot as a scott might hope and there are already people participating which is comforting to the rogers!

Well, today is Saturday. Work Day… I’ll be checking in later… Don’t forget Ttotville exists because you’re there.

* no, I would not be prepared to say what I would consider my ‘not normal efforts’ would be like….Christine! lol

Your hosts

A Fly on our (Chicken Coop) Wall, Considerings, Finding Ninee, I can say mama, I Want Backsies, Steps into Parenthood, Thankful Me, The Wakefield Doctrine

An InLinkz Link-up

1) Neil Peart…drummer extraordinaire for the excellent band, Rush

2) Gordon Bennett…. thanks to Lizzi for using him as a reference to my efforts to… stay organized in her absence

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“newspaper taxis appear on the shore, waiting to take you away’ the Wakefield Doctrine (while the album plays, the Sentence is Finished, this Friday)

August 16, 2013 By clarkscottroger

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

I was almost going to not participate in Finish The Sentence Friday today.* Nothing bad (for a reason), too much work, the common cold of distractions, the cumulative effects of which (often) results in a state of creatile dysfunction. But, as has happened since I started writing a blog, I made a Comment at Lizzi ‘s Facebook Page that was based on a song, which lead me to listening to the full album on ‘the youtube’ (my physical album long since absorbed by the insulation and rafters of my attic).

I used to love to….

listen to Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club in its entirety (at one time, sequentially at one time).

Think about how much has changed in our lives. Even something as small as the way we enjoy music. To sit and listen to an entire album…without ‘putting it on pause’… without ‘having to click the next link to the next song’, without ‘having to answer an email’ or even ‘twittering to everyone how much I enjoy ‘Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite’.’ Just listening.

This is not a Post about how wonderful the old days were. This is not a Post about how some things are not as good as they were when we were young(er). This Post is about one of the things I used to love to do… and I still love to do. (I always end up getting something from writing these Posts). Right now, as I get to the second half of the ‘second side’ of the album, I’m feeling that like while nothing stays the same as we grow older, nothing can take away the pleasures of the past. And, unless I destroy it for myself, by trying to compare today to yesterday, what I used to love to can be as enjoyable as it used to be.

“I’ve got nothing to say but it’s ok. Good Morning, Good Morning”

* Finish The Sentence Friday from Friends of the Doctrine, Janine and Kate and Stephanie and Dawn.

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of change and exuberance …the Wakefield Doctrine (“…with progress comes resistance”)

July 29, 2013 By clarkscottroger

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

We all now know that the Wakefield Doctrine is fun…these last few weeks (especially the weekends), bear ample witness to this aspect of our personality theory.

We all also know that the Wakefield Doctrine is unique.

But the productive quality of the Wakefield Doctrine, Is it useful? Does it aid in (one’s) effort to develop and self-improve oneself? That is a totally unequivocal ‘yes! it surely does!’ But none of these three rhetorical questions are the focus of today’s Post! The focus of today’s Post is, as our title clearly states: with progress comes resistance.

So here’s the thing. I’m a clark. I have always wanted to do better. Improve myself. As a child (ages 5 through 17) it was about improving in order to meet (and exceed**) my parents expectation. From my grades in school to my activites in high school, there was always a part of me that wanted to do better. Now, you rogers out there are thinking, ‘ok, good premise, promising start but you need to clarify make it clear what all this means, otherwise. you’ll lose your audience‘. Alas, there is no answer clearer than this: I wanted to do better and to make my parents and family proud of me.

Now this ambition, especially in a child, is very common and not unusual. Children want to be valued members of their families and such. My problem wasn’t that I was un-able to try and make my parents and family proud of me (and later in life, make my friends and girl friend/lover/wife proud). No, my problem wasn’t that I was un-willing to try! The problem was that I couldn’t deal with success.

When a clark succeeds, (in doing more, acting differently, changing lifelong patterns) something happens. When a clark manages to do what no one thought for a second they could do (no one but the clark in question). When a clark changes and acts and feels and interacts with the world on a different level, in a different way, there is resistance. Resistance from friends, resistance from work, resistance from family. This is not to be too metaphysical …just resistance. (Longtime Readers of the Wakefield Doctrine will remember a story I related about how, in high school I asked a girl out, got stood up and, in my response to this very, very common life-event, sealed my fate as a clark,
Well, there is a part of the story I left out. Before getting stood up, I had to ask to borrow the family car. I was successful in doing so. And I felt really good, really…normal. It’s what teenage boys are supposed to do. But then I said something to a sibling, words to the effect, ‘hey, you’re going to have to start dating soon’. clarklike readers are cringing at this point, so I will move on. rogers and scotts? hold this scene in your mind.)

My little description about the resistance of the world to change is nothing especially insightful. Everyone encounters this resistance to change, scotts do and rogers do. It’s just that for clarks, there is a moment, a moment when the world pushes back and says, ‘whoa there. hold on now. don’t you think you’re getting a little too big for your britches‘ and, for many of us…. for me, including the unpleasant outcome of the story I am using as an illustration, there is a feeling that comes back on us…’they’ve been humoring me, all of what I thought was a better me…they are laughing‘

It is not a good feeling. (the Progenitor roger coyned the perfect expression: “my head swelled up and my face fell”).

Most of the time, we put up a brave front and at the first opportunity, run and hide.

But this is different. This Wakefield Doctrine is different (and fun and useful). I still have those moments of thinking that I am acting the fool, that I am not changing the world for 2 or 7 or 29 people. I still have the stomache that comes from thinking… “you’re being such a clark“.

But this is Doctrine thing is different. I mentioned this to another clark… rogers and scotts still reading? this will not make sense…at any rate, I was doing something exuberant at the Facebook…I think it was writing something I thought was especially clever when Kristi was having her blog critiqued by the blogging bloppers.. there came a moment, when I pushed the envelope and that part of me whispered, ‘now you’ve done it, you’ve gotten offensive and stupid. you have alienated everyone‘.

The old feelings started to rise, but (for the first time in my life), I found myself thinking, ‘well then, I guess I’ll jusy have to get another set of everyone’

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine.

speaking of Progenitor roger… he did a response to one of the awards on the TTofT this weekend… for those of you who have not stopped by the little sod home on the prairie (with the distant sound of guitars emanating from the vicintity of)…stop by ‘the Rag (tell ’em the Doctrine sent ya)

** it’s always exceed, isn’t it?

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capital letter-less Monday! the Wakefield Doctrine ( it’s more fun than you might think!)

June 24, 2013 By clarkscottroger

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

hey, you know how we say that one of the primary values of the Wakefield Doctrine lies in it providing a certain perspective on behavior that, when applied to our own lives, proves to be a unique tool for self-development?

well, we do.
the important thing is this: in order to effectively use the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool for self-improvement and/or self-development it’s necessary to understand the nature of the three worldviews.

new readers! dig this: we are all born with the innate capacity to experience the world in one of three ways, or worldviews (aka personal realities): the world/life as an Outsider (clarks), living and developing as one must to survive and flourish in the reality of the Predator (scotts) and experiencing the world as a member of a Herd (rogers). you with us? fine. we all ‘pick’ a worldview and grow up and develop our personalities in response to the particular challenges and advantages found in these realities. the thing is, we retain the potential to see the world as ‘the other two’ do. for example, I’m a clark, predominant worldview is that of the Outsider which means the world around me today is such that I do not fit in, I see things in a way that results in my demonstrating a certain creativity, I spent a lot of time being self-effacing, (often amounting to self-destructiveness), I have an insatiable appetite to learn new information and I am simultaneously sentimental and cold. that is because that is the nature of the world I wake up to. I also have a secondary (and a tertiary) aspect. my secondary is that of a scott and my 3rd is rogerian. (btw these secondary and tertiary aspects? thats why people sometimes will say, ‘hey I must be some kind of new personality type! like a clarkroger, because most of the time I feel like I’ll never fit in and then sometimes I can be real real stubborn and obstinate’ that’s your secondary showing through.

so…learn the characteristics of the three worldviews. observe your fellow lifeforms. infer the reality that they appear to be responding and reacting to and once you are able to correctly infer the worldview of the other person, you will know more about them than they know about themselves.
so…learn the characteristics of the three worldviews. observe yourself. first eliminate the obviously not fitting worldview, then hold the other two worldviews up and see which one makes the world make (more) sense… that is your predominant worldview. that is what will be useful to you, if you have an interest in: understanding the behavior of the people in our lives, taking better advantage of the people in our lives, knowing more about the inner thoughts and feelings of the people in our lives and , for some of you… learning ways to improve your own life.

we used to do an internet radio show and one of the things I always tried to say to the listener about the Doctrine was, “the Wakefield Doctrine is concerned with ‘how you relate yourself to the world around you’. note that I did not say, ‘…how you relate to the world’… I said, ‘ how you relate yourself to the world around you'”. that distinction is of critical importance in making the Doctrine a useful and effective tool.

… so we will stop here for today.

… one thing! to clarify my point, at the beginning of today’s Post, the key to using the Doctrine is learning and understanding the nature, characteristics and such of the three worldviews. in fact, it was DownSpring Cyndi who proffered the term ‘fluency’ as a way to describe our efforts to learn about the three worldviews, i.e. “hey, I am becoming more fluent in the scottian worldview… FUCK!” or “my fluency in the rogerian reality allows me to approximate the ‘projectile disinterest’ that we see so many of the ‘natives’ employ to such devastating effect”

(to be continued)

Friend of the Doctrine, Melanie has let us know that, due to shifting priorities, she would have her other blog ‘Steer Career Success‘ listed on our blogroll… it’s a good and useful and fun site, it has to do with jobs and careers and such and totally ties in with where we are taking this conversation about the use of the Wakefield Doctrine in the workplace… so stop over at her blog and say ‘hidy’

speaking of sent ya… if you are still reading this Post, I totally want to engage you in …. conversation! we are having the first weekly Wakefield Doctrine Video Brunch, this coming weekend. since you are clearly interested in the Doctrine, I totally care about making the Vid Brunch convenient to your time zone… so leave us a Comment and let me know your ‘zone …am currently thinking to start in the early am this coming Sunday (’cause Friend of the Doctrine Michelle is a nicely symetrical 12 hours ahead of us. but there is still room to play with the exact starting hour)

hey, ever one… Friend of the Doctrine, Mod Mom has got herself a whole new look over at elleroy was here (yes, the Rickenbacker is still there…)